A family name on East 24th Avenue, Kensington-Cedar Cottage, Riley Park and Renfrew-Collingwood
The Cookes
In the city directories 1940 · five people at one address
The directories print five people named Cooke at one address, 306 East 24th Avenue in Riley Park, in 1940. The directories print the name on 46 other streets too, all listed on the Cooke name's own page.
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The Cookes at home
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306 East 24th Avenue
Riley Park, 1940
- Mrs M Cooke, widow of J V 1940
- Alice K Cooke, an accountant at British Insurance Agencies 1940
- Stan S Cooke 1940
- Valma Cooke, a bookkeeper at Morrow Coal & Ice 1940
- Zina Cooke, a stenographer at British Insurance Agencies 1940
Next door in 1940: Mrs S Edwards at 314. The block, door by door
What they did
The name section prints a trade for three of the five: an accountant, a bookkeeper and a stenographer. Two of them worked for British Insurance Agencies. One is a widow, listed under her own name.
Their neighbourhoods
The address is in Riley Park. Each neighbourhood's page shows its trades, its people and every street in it, the way the directory printed them.
The story, address by address
In 1940 the directory lists Mrs M Cooke at 306 East 24th Avenue. The 1940 name section, where each person's work is printed, lists Mary Cooke there as the householder, widow of J V, with Alice K Cooke, an accountant at British Insurance Agencies, Stan S Cooke, Valma Cooke, a bookkeeper at Morrow Coal & Ice, and Zina Cooke, a stenographer at British Insurance Agencies.
Today
306 East 24th still has its building from before 1946, dated 1928 by the City's record.
Every line as printed
All 6 lines printed under the name through 1945, each with its page at the Vancouver Public Library.
- Cooke Mrs M306 East 24th, p. 238
- Cooke Alice K acct British Ins Agcies306 East 24th, p. 124
- Cooke Mary wid J V306 East 24th, p. 124
- Cooke Stan S306 East 24th, p. 124
- Cooke Valma bkpr Morrow Coal & Ice306 East 24th, p. 124
- Cooke Zina sten British Ins Agcies306 East 24th, p. 125
British Columbia and Yukon Directory, street section
The book of the Cookes
Every directory, as one book
The family book reads the Cooke name in each Vancouver directory we hold from 1901 to 1945: everyone printed under it at every address, their work from the name sections, who lived next door, and the page behind every line, to read here or save as a PDF to print or give.
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Another name, or a house
Sources
Henderson's and successor city directories for Vancouver, read by us line by line: the street sections for 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1940 and 1945, and the name section for 1930 and 1940 where we've read it (Vancouver Public Library, BC City Directories). Names are shown through 1945, as printed. Close spellings are grouped, as on the house pages, since a family's name was often spelled differently from one year to the next; one name can still be several families, and we join lines only where the first names or initials agree. Many Chinese, Japanese and other residents weren't named by the canvassers, so they can't be listed by name: their houses' pages say where. More family names under C. Want a name removed? Tell us.